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Newspaper
Wilmette Life
Location
Wilmette, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1928
Page
2
Miss Inez Webster of Kenilworth plans a Saturday evening gathering with friends after the Junior prom at New Trier High School. Northwestern University art classes visited Wilmette gardens last Wednesday afternoon.
The Webb School of Dancing in Winnetka presented a large program with fourteen numbers. The event featured a gardening scene by Misses Peggy Hutsch Betty Barroll Adelia Barroll and Sara Jane Locke and a Spanish dance by Mrs Florence Webb. Babies Betty Barroll Betty Cleveland Sandy Patsy Matz Patricia McNally Barbara and Silas Warner participated in a number titled We will try to entertain you.
Vista del Lago announces its formal opening dance of the season on Saturday evening May 26. Albert Kremer, son of Mr and Mrs Charles F Kremer of 723 Laurel Avenue, returned from the University of Illinois to spend last weekend with his parents.
The Blackfriars at the University of Chicago will stage The House That Jack Built a 1928 musical comedy in Mandel Hall on May 18 19 25 and 26 with matinee discounts for high school students May 19 and 26. The panorama features Old Man Stage football coach John D Rockefeller founder of the school C C Pyle and other notable figures moving through a tale of two undergraduates who marry wealth to reshape the college.
The Rev. Francis Carr Stifler formerly pastor of Wilmette Baptist will deliver the sermon at the 11 o clock service Sunday May 13. He soon leaves Wilmette to take the pastorate at First Baptist church in East Orange New Jersey.
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